Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

How to document constraints, assumptions, risks and dependencies and how they inform requirements will be discussed in this session.

Julian Sammy will explore the meaning of risk and why the BA must engage stakeholder in risk discussion.

You will leave this session with a better understanding of the difference between PMI and IIBA description of CARRDS.
(Constraints, Assumptions, Risks, Requirements & Dependencie)

Share your thoughts and experience and questions during this one hour presentation.

Presenter: Julian Sammy (EBA, IIBA) (LinkedIn profile @sci_ba) : Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK^® Guide BACCM

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Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

New product development engineers promote agile development and adaptive prototyping as methods to manage unpredictable engineering development.

However, some project managers reject the business challenges, risks and uncertainties of the adaptive development environment.

Adaptive Product Management (APM) bridges the gap between unpredictable, adaptive technology development and predictive, practical product management techniques.

The fundamental APM tasks are:

• coordinate
• quick-draw innovation
• collaborate to innovate
• enable flexible growth options
• and encourage an APM culture

These bring value to both product development and project management.

The technical merits and management challenges of using adaptive development in today’s customer-centric business environment are discussed. APM forces a product development paradigm shift from execution of known constraints to learning of unknown product potential.

A “pull” development strategy creates a lean, value-add product development cycle. APM uses time-phased product demands to map development. APM implementation strategies, best practices and performance control warnings are outlined.

Participants will learn how to effectively deploy APM in their organizations and new technology development applications.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Vince Socci, is a product manager and cross-disciplined systems engineer. His technology expertise includes embedded systems, sensors and signal processing, power control systems, and diagnostics. Vince has over 15 years of experience in aerospace, automotive and defense systems. He has applied the APM concepts described in this presentation in aerospace, automotive, communications, services management, utility and medical applications.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs / CDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst
Note: This webinar will be a live hands-on session with our upcoming Alteryx Project Edition,

Do you need to go further with analytics than your desktop tools will allow?

Business leaders depend on data analysts like you to provide the crucial guidance they rely on to make decisions every day. They need the right results, right now.

Waiting in line for IT budget or specialists isn’t going to get you what you need. New sources of data from Hadoop and social media promise fresh customer insights, but make it even harder to create the analytic dataset you need.

Download a free edition of Alteryx Strategic Analytics, and follow along as we build a sophisticated data and analytic workflow in under an hour.

This session is designed to provide practical skills that you can use to:

• Instantly create the analytics you need for your project with any data.
• Easily build step-by-step workflows for analytics and iterate as your business evolves.
• Confidently deliver the exact analytics your business decision makers need.
• Sign up now and later in May we’ll send you the link to download Alteryx Project Edition for free.

Alteryx Project Edition is a free version of the Alteryx strategic analytics platform that will enable you to deliver instant analytics without specialist data or coding tools.

Sign up for this webinar today to experience Instant Analytics.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are You using Sharepoint for PPM?

SharePoint has features that can be used for a basic PPM structure but it’s difficult to get views of the progress, health, and risk level of a single project, or of the projects in an entire portfolio.

This webcast will explain and demonstrate how SharePoint can easily be extended with reporting capabilities to:

• Manage projects with simple KPIs
• Manage medium sized projects with metrics
• Get metrics from Microsoft Project into SharePoint
• Manage across a portfolio of projects with metrics
• Add periodic status reports and personal reports

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 6.7 Control Schedule

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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